Category: American Revolution
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (2023) by Stacy Schiff
Today, most Americans think of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) mostly as one of the original best selling craft beers, which first hit American grocery shelves in 1984. Even as an avid reader of early American history, I must confess that my understanding of Adams’s specific role in the American Revolution was limited to his clandestine agitation…
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Paul Revere’s Ride (1994) by David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer writes delightful books. He expertly combines the breezy readability of a master popular historian with the professional craftsmanship and deep primary research of a top rate academic. The end result is a narrative that is at once a dazzling adventure tale and a groundbreaking piece of historiography. The adventure tale aspect of…
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